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The private collections of longtime Japan resident Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people--some famous, some unknown--with insight and humor. Richie, who considers himself a foreigner despite living in Japan for over 53 years, is a keen observer of human nature. In Japanese Portraits, he provides an elegant and perceptive vision of Japan through precise, intimate portraits of ordinary and extraordinary Japanese people. Portraits include such notable Japanese as acclaimed filmmakers Akira Kurowasa and Yasujiro Ozu, famed novelist Yukio Mishima, and celebrated actor Toshiro Mifune.
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About the Author
Donald Richie was born in Lima, OH in 1924 and has lived in Japan since 1947. The author of thirty books and dozens of essays, Richie is especially well-known for his travel memoir The Inland Sea which has been
adapted into a popular PBS documentary. His best-known collection is The Donald Richie Reader, which contains 50 years of his writings on Japan.
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"Richie's Japan lies far beneath the surface of the headlines. His portraits are unforgettable."—Tom Wolfe
"More revealing than many a thick sociological study."—Paul McCarthy
"Nobody has thought as widely and as concretely (therefore, as helpfully) as Richie has about how a single distinctive culture gathers up contradictions, coheres, works, resists change, and changes."—Susan Sontag
"If I were asked what book to put in the hands of those who want to understand Japan, this would be it."—Anthony Thwaite
"Richie has found his home in Japan—he has turned his home into art."—Ian Buruma
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- PublisherTuttle Publishing
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0804837724
- ISBN 13 9780804837729
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages248
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